Hutao uses me to judge my performance

"I... have a friend who can't find the meaning of existence."

Jiang Bai held his cheek and spoke in a gentle tone:

"Can you tell me about your friend?"

Abedo nodded and continued:

"My friend was born to be considered unlucky. He was ignorant and thought everyone would like him, but he unknowingly brought disaster. Everyone regarded him as a scourge and avoided it, even wanting to get rid of it. Soon after that...

"He didn't understand at the time and thought people were playing with him, so he started playing with those people. But his behavior made people more fearful, hateful, and disgusting... Later, he was imprisoned in a dark prison. cage.

"He has a brother who is completely different from him. That brother has been loved and taught by his mother since he was a child. He lives in the sun and everyone likes him.

"He's envious, he's jealous. He doesn't know what the meaning of his existence is? Is it just that he is hated by everyone? If that's the case, why does he exist?"

Jiang Bai listened quietly to him telling the whole story without showing anything strange.

"What do you think the meaning of human existence should be?"

Abedo held the wine bottle and lowered his head, "I don't know. My existence seems to be to fulfill my mother's expectations."

"Have you ever thought about it? People live for themselves."

Jiang Bai took a sip of wine and looked at the snowy sky.

"The meaning of existence itself is illusory. If you are too attached to it, you will get lost in it."

Abedo raised his head and looked at him quietly without speaking.

"Everything exists for a reason. Instead of exploring those illusory meanings, it is better to take a good look at yourself.

"Ask yourself, are you happy? Are you happy?"

"Are you happy..." Abedo was silent.

Jiang Bai looked into his eyes and said seriously:

"You can respond to the expectations of your relatives and friends, but you have to remember that people live for themselves. Don't regard those expectations as the meaning of your existence.

"People should put themselves first and then others."

"But what if it's not a human being..."

Abedo's voice was very soft, but Jiang Bai still heard it.

Jiang Bai smiled, "That's myself first, and then others."

Abedo took a sip of wine and became a little tipsy.

Jiang Bai continued to ramble, "I have a friend who is somewhat similar to you."

"In what way are they similar?"

"He is a puppet and not a real human being."

Jiang Bai glanced at Abedo, who had no reaction when he heard this.

Jiang Bai paused and continued:

"Abandoned by the [mother] who created him, he has spent countless years searching for the meaning of his existence."

"Did he find it?"

Jiang Bai shook his head, "No."

“He wants to prove his worth too much and wants to be useful, but in fact he doesn’t need to prove anything, and people are not judged based on their worth.

"I'm very ordinary, but I can also make myself happy."

"Are you happy..."

Abedo's eyes flashed with confusion.

He hasn't felt this way for a long, long time.

Jiang Bai patted him on the shoulder, "If I were your friend, I would run out of the prison, go to a place where no one knows me, turn myself into an ordinary person, and start my life again."

"Okay, I'm leaving, see you later."

Chapter 585: Is that Abedo Dulin?

Jiang Bai waved his hand, left the wine in his hand, and walked out of the cave.

Abedo looked at his back blankly.

"Have you been discovered..."

His heart was shaking, and his thoughts were extremely confused.

"Want to kill?"

"But, he already knows that I am not Albedo, so what's the point of killing me?"

"But why does Albedo have such a friend!"

"But no one has ever spoken to me like this, in a happy mood..."

Two different emotions kept intertwining and quarreling in my heart.

He held the wine bottle tightly, and because of too much force, the glass wine bottle shattered directly, and the cold liquid and sharp glass fragments wet his hands.

Blood seeped out from his palms, dripped to the ground, and splashed with ice flowers.

He looked at the blood in his hand, picked up the wine that the man placed next to him, and left the cave.

……

Jiang Bai returned to Abedo's camp and met Abedo again.

Jiang Bai finally smiled easily, "I told you, you can make it easy for me to find you."

Rather than worrying about Abedo being in danger, it is obviously more reliable to have someone disguise himself as him.

Even though Abedo doesn't usually take action, his strength is unparalleled.

Abedo had no idea what was going on and greeted him with a smile, "Why are you here? You didn't even write me a letter in advance."

"How can I deliver a letter as quickly as I can?"

"Also...it's a pity that alchemy is not omnipotent, and I don't have much research on machinery. Otherwise, I might be able to make a short-distance communicator, which would make communication much more convenient."

Jiang Bai took out the pointer of the Sifang Jingyi, "How about one? It will be easier for me to find you later."

"I am a product of alchemy, this is of no use to me."

"Ok."

Abedo handed him a cup of hot tea. Jiang Bai took a sip and suddenly felt much warmer.

"Speaking of which, I just met your brother."

"My brother?" Abedo was confused.

"It should be Du Lin."

I have a friend who usually refers to himself when he says this.

Combined with his abnormality and his relationship with Albedo, it is not difficult to guess his identity.

"Dulin? Tell me carefully what happened."

Abedo frowned slightly. Jiang Bai's sentence contained too much information.

Jiang Bai found a chair and sat down, warming his cold hands in front of the fire.

"I don't know if he is resurrected, but he does exist, can be touched, and can drink.

"I met him at Dulin's heart. He looked like you, but he only imitated the shape. I'm not sure if he knew about me. After all, he showed that he was in a bad mood. He looked a little indifferent and never called me by my name.

"I was worried that something had happened to you. I didn't think much about it, but after a few deep conversations, I realized that it wasn't you."

Abedo is a very elegant person who pays attention to details. He will not drink in a gulp and then choke on a large sip of wine, nor will he ignore it after the wine drips on his body...

Even if you are in a bad mood, these details that are engraved in your bones will not be changed in a short while.

The most important thing is that he will not treat his friends so coldly.

Especially Jiang Bai, his close friend.

Jiang Bai told the conversation between him and the fake Abedo, and Abedo fell into deep thought.

"It must be Du Lin."

Abedo gave a more certain statement.

"I knew it was not that easy for him to truly die, but I didn't expect that his consciousness would always exist..."

"Has it always existed? Is there a possibility of sudden resurrection?"

If it has always existed, has he appeared before?Or did you just wake up recently?

"I don't know. We may not know until we meet him in person."

Abedo sighed, "Master did not create them for the purpose of destruction, but many things do not go according to one's wishes."

As Dulin himself said, he came to Mondstadt with no ill intentions, but he unknowingly brought destruction.

Many things do not develop as expected, and no one knows what the final result will be before the start.

"Are you going to find him? I don't know if he's gone."

"Go ahead, the snow-capped mountains are so big, it won't be so easy to find him next time."

Jiang Bai nodded, drank the hot tea in one gulp, wrapped his cloak tightly, put on his hat, and took Albedo to the cave where he came from.

Unfortunately, they arrived a little late, and there was no one in the cave. Only the firewood that had been burned into charcoal was glowing.

Jiang Bai looked at the broken glass bottle and the blood on the ground, not quite sure what happened.

"Can you tell anything from the blood?"

Abedo collected a little frozen blood and used alchemy to sense it.

"It's very similar to human blood, but there are elemental fluctuations escaping inside."

Abedo collected all the blood.

There is not enough equipment here to conduct research.

When we return to the laboratory, we may be able to explore what kind of life form Dulin is now.

"The footprints on the snow are not covered yet. Let's follow the footprints and look for them to see if we can find them."

"Row."

On the mountain road a little away from the two of them, the fake Albedo walked alone in the pure white world.

He has no purpose and just moves around randomly.

He had seen the surrounding scenery a thousand times, and there was nothing new about it for him.

But after seeing the magnificent snow scenery overlooking from high altitude, these ordinary snow scenery will no longer be amazing.

He didn't know whether he was Du Lin or not.

Rather than saying that he is Du Lin, it is better to say that he is a reborn product after the fusion of Du Lin's consciousness and the chaotic earth line of Snow Mountain.

He didn't know what the meaning of his existence was, as if his appearance meant nothing to the world.

He was jealous of Albedo and was going crazy with jealousy.

Why?Why should he be hated by others and die in the ice and snow?

Why?Why are they the children of the same mother?Can Abedo have all those wonderful things?

Jealousy and destruction flowed in his newly awake heart.

Since I don’t have a good life, don’t even think about it!

So, he became like Albedo.

Prepare to cause some havoc, kill some of his friends, and make him equally hated by the world.

But before the plan even started, he couldn't bear to do it anymore.

He was very confused.